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Yeah it getting bad out there, I cant always tell if car ahead of me has brights floods on or not, I get blinded and hope not to run into the deer.

New Jersey is not in play, and neither is Virginia. Minnesota is really not either. These threads are becoming a tad ridiculous.

It's going to be pretty wild if Trump ends up losing worse than the polls suggest and in hindsight, it's clear that he should not have been wasting time in states like these (and NY) that were never going to go to him.

I wouldnt describe these states as competitive, Trump lacks $$ to expand map into expense areas priced like Jersey or NovA. If Trump wins any of these states it means Joe had much big problems else where.

So wait, am I right in assessing that basically the entirety of the collapse of BC United is because of the name change?

LOL

Someone from BC might know better, but my understanding is that the rebrand just confused a lot of people at first, and that can have an impact in the polls. Let's say around this time last year, if I'm a typical federal Tory/provincial Liberal voter in BC, but I don't follow politics too closely, I might not even know about the BC Liberal rebrand. The polling prompts are NDP (dirty hippies), Green (dirty hippies), BC United (what?), and Conservative. Well if you're a federal Conservative voter and you don't know what BC United is, just by process of elimination, you would pick Conservative. Not to mention BC Conservatives had already made gains in 2020, and I think that confusion alone gave them enough of a polling boost, which subsequently led to more people taking the BC Conservatives more seriously. Again, just spitballing here.

I also wonder if it's just that calling yourself a Conservative is kind of an asset in the current climate. Like people aren't voting for John Rustad, polls show that his unknowns are still very high for a leader in his position, and David Eby still has a better net favourable. Halfway across the country, Doug Ford has become fairly unpopular, yet the PCs still poll in majority territory and actually gained support in a recent byelection in a key swing seat. In theory, neither Ford nor Rustad should be doing as well as they are. But both Ford's party and Rustad's party have "Conservative" in their name, and the CPC hasn't consistently polled this high literally since the party's founding. So it's possible that CPC's polling boost federally is having a "downballot" impact of just making people more favourable to parties that have "conservative" in their name.

Why bumping such an old thread instead of creating a new one?

When comes to Dubya, there's a stark contrast between politics and the rest. Strongly dislike the politics. Aside from politics, he seems to be a pleasant and humorous guy with a talent for painting (he should have done this instead of running for office). I also like his Texan accent.

Biden + DNC raised $90M in March and $26M of the haul was from his big fundraiser with Obama & Clinton. So without that fundraiser he would've raised roughly $60M in March. But $43M of Trump's $76M April haul was from his huge one day fundraiser where he maxed out a lot of donors. Both campaigns are relying a lot on big flashy fundraisers to juice their numbers.

Is it possible that Biden also maxed out some of his donors at that NYC fundraiser?

I don't think so; Biden's fundraiser was much more grassroots than Trumps

Suppose this group of Israeli politicians would (be able to) run for office in the United States. How do you think a matchup between Bibi and Gantz would end up, if they were the Republican and Dmocratic nominees, respectively? I think Ben-Gvir and Lapid would be realistic running mates.

The fact that he was a unifying figure

Dislike: Fanning the culture wars

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Criminalizing this is a giant slippery slope

There shouldn't be a partisan narrative. The problem is that the lab claim was made prior to the emergence of evidence. Asking questions is one thing, but you don't get points for guessing sh!t. It's also pretty tacky to be using this pandemic to score political points. I have my share of complaints on how it was handled but I'm generally going to lean on what the current scientific consensus says more than some troll on 8chan or XXX or Trump's own stupid advice he gave during the pandemic to take hydroxychloroquine. Also, Trump could have fired Fauci at any time. He opted not to. But the bottom line is misinformation is a pandemic in itself.

It's a good thing they're suspending the funding.

It IS a partisan narrative, and it will REMAIN a partisan narrative solely because of the degree to which the Democrats sought to censor this talk on social media platforms as "disinformation" and "Xenophobia".  You can't put that genie back in the bottle until the Democrats who did this admit they were wrong to attempt to censor the Free Speech of others, as well as peddling Wet Market Fairy Tales.

The apology should be for attempting to stifle the speech of the American people whose views on COVID-19 they did not agree with.